- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 11:19:07 EST
- To: www-amaya@w3.org, www-amaya-developers@w3.org
The current way THOTDIR is determined is broken. Currently
Thot/thotlib/base/registry.c just scans up from the location where it
theinks the amaya binary was run from. In effect, the build tree, the
installed location of the binaries and the installed location of the
configuration files all have to be the same. For installation in a
heterogenous networked environment, it should be possible to install
the (platform-dependent) binaries in a different place than the
(platform-independent) configuration files.
To support this, registry.c should check a compiled-in value and/or an
environment variable before doing the scan of the directory tree. Here
is a diff to Thot/thotlib/base/registry.c which changes this behavior
to first check the environment variable THOTDIR, and if it is set
check if it is the Thot directory, and then check the value of
COMPILED_IN_THOTDIR if this was defined at compile time, before doing
the scan of the directory tree upwards from the binary. I compiled
binaries of Amaya with this applied and they worked when run from
different directories as long as THOTDIR was set in the environment.
It is also possible to put something along the lines of
-DCOMPILED_IN_THOTDIR='"/path/to/thot"' in the compiler options in the
Makefile to make that directory get checked after the one pointed to
by the environment variable.
- Maciej Stachowiak
*** registry.c Wed Feb 5 12:57:05 1997
--- registry.c.fixed Sat Mar 1 08:29:00 1997
***************
*** 907,912 ****
--- 907,913 ----
char *my_path;
char *dir_end;
char *appName;
+ char *thot_dir_env;
#ifndef _WINDOWS
struct stat stat_buf;
***************
*** 1058,1063 ****
--- 1059,1085 ----
/* save the binary directory in BinariesDirectory */
strncpy (BinariesDirectory, &execname[0], sizeof (BinariesDirectory));
+
+ /* first check the THOTDIR environment variable */
+ thot_dir_env=getenv("THOTDIR");
+ if (NULL!=thot_dir_env) {
+ AddRegisterEntry ("System", "THOTDIR", thot_dir_env,
+ REGISTRY_INSTALL, TRUE);
+ strcpy(execname,thot_dir_env);
+ goto load_system_settings;
+ }
+ #ifdef COMPILED_IN_THOTDIR
+ /* then check the compiled in value (if any) */
+ if (IsThotDir (COMPILED_IN_THOTDIR))
+ {
+ AddRegisterEntry ("System", "THOTDIR", COMPILED_IN_THOTDIR,
+ REGISTRY_INSTALL, TRUE);
+ strcpy(execname,COMPILED_IN_THOTDIR);
+ goto load_system_settings;
+ }
+ #endif /* COMPILED_IN_THOTDIR */
+ /* if all else fails, scan up from where we found the binary */
+
if (IsThotDir (&execname[0]))
{
Received on Saturday, 1 March 1997 17:19:07 UTC